Things like this makes me ashamed to have my name on papers in Nature.
First, lets set aside the hypocrisy of a non open access journal publishing this[1]. (What happens if Sacha wants to inform her self by reading a few old nature papers?)
I am pro vaccine but far too many doctors have this fantasy that they should have unlimited control and articles like this just serve to validate that view point.
Medicine is an inexact and continually evolving science and a good doctor should always be willing to talk over the options with you and engage with you on a level beyond just parroting the current recommendations. As someone who is one of the people contributing to the body of often-vague statistics we call medicine it is continuously annoying to have to get doctors to explain their (often subjective) judgment calls they are making and actually present their reasoning analytically.
Additionally, many doctors choose to forgo recommended treatments themselves due to side effects [2].
First, lets set aside the hypocrisy of a non open access journal publishing this[1]. (What happens if Sacha wants to inform her self by reading a few old nature papers?)
I am pro vaccine but far too many doctors have this fantasy that they should have unlimited control and articles like this just serve to validate that view point.
Medicine is an inexact and continually evolving science and a good doctor should always be willing to talk over the options with you and engage with you on a level beyond just parroting the current recommendations. As someone who is one of the people contributing to the body of often-vague statistics we call medicine it is continuously annoying to have to get doctors to explain their (often subjective) judgment calls they are making and actually present their reasoning analytically.
Additionally, many doctors choose to forgo recommended treatments themselves due to side effects [2].
[1] In fact you can pay extra to make your nature paper open access but it is by no means fully open access. [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die...